Top 999 Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 7
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
A plant is the most cliche thing, but a little bit of green has a great effect on happiness. Being at a cubicle all day is not pleasing, but a little life on your desk can give you a little life, too.
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
I think happiness really happens when you least expect it: it's when you're not really thinking about it, when you're not trying to achieve it, when you're not trying to get the perfect holiday, the perfect life, the perfect body, the perfect existence.
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.
My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
Happiness is only real when shared.
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.
I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.
Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Happiness is an inside job.
There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.